What would it take to get everyone to finally switch to MT5? (collecting opinions) - page 27

[aleger]

Petros Shatakhtsyan:

No. I started with FoxBase in '91, and switched to Visual FoxPro, it was still part of Visual Studio. And when they took it out of VS, I didn't use it anymore.

And why do you need other things when you have MQL5, tester and signals?

At about the same time (a bit earlier) I was developing and maintaining criminal statistics for the UVD in Yandex.

statistics for the Department of Internal Affairs on YMB (Accounting Machine Language), Neva-501 and Iskra-555, and transport accounting for the regional State Automobile Inspection on dBaseIII and FoxPro.

Out of Metatrader I like MT-4 and its language (so far!) more!

[Реter Konow]

Vasiliy Sokolov:

Well, MT4 is both friendly and simple and has no requirements. Why reinvent it?

Yes, you are technically right. MT4 is comfortable for weak coders, they feel comfortable using it and do not need to switch. But MT4 is not eternal and becomes obsolete with time, and people always want something new and interesting. MT5 is supposed to be a logical continuation of MT4, but it denies the indiscriminateness and raises the bar of minimum professionalism of coders. Its requirements are not accepted by the core contingent of coders and they do not transition - and hence MT5 does not become a logical continuation of MT4. Which means it cannot replace it in the future. And that's a problem, because sooner or later, MT4 may become obsolete... Not necessarily quickly, but still...

[pavlick_]

Dmitry Fedoseev:

You didn't understand a word I was trying to say at all. And the licences - read them.

Should I read them all or can I skip them all ))? I do not know what "free" means for you, maybe you have to pay extra? In short

A program is free software if the program's users have the four essential freedoms:

• The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
• The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
• The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
• The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

I suggest we end there, but remember: software wants to be free!)

[Dmitry Fedoseev]

pavlick_:

Should I read everything or can I skip it ))? I don't know what "free" means to you, maybe they should pay you extra? In short...

I suggest we end there, but remember: software wants to be free !!!)

So immediately and finish? You read, you read, but how do you read? You seem to fantasise more than you read. Everyone knows that something is free when it's free and can be used for free. What's so special about that quote you quoted above?

[Aleksey Ivanov]

The opinion of this thread https://www.mql5.com/ru/forum/302625 should be included here too.

[multiplicator]

Реter Konow:

you got the opinions? now let's take a poll.
"what exactly do you need to move to mt5?"

[Konstantin Nikitin]

Talking about nothing. It all depends on the trading conditions of the accounts. Where they are more attractive, most of the clients of a brokerage company trade there. And in normal brokerage companies everyone already has both versions of the terminal.

[BillionerClub]

Eliminate browsers, messengers, youtube, it's all we're going to run it through Metac.

[BillionerClub]

[Renat Fatkhullin]

Here is a general response to the comments made here: https://www.mql5.com/ru/forum/302625/page8#comment_10568411